Saturday, July 29, 2006

Your cell phone is so money

Forgot your wallet? You'll need a better excuse than that for passing on the check. By next year, you'll be able to pay simply by swiping your cell phone a few inches from a cash register, with a new wireless standard called Near Field Communication.

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Inflation up as U.S. economy slows down

WASHINGTON - U.S. economic growth slowed and inflation rose in the three months ending in June, the government reported yesterday, confirming earlier signs that consumers are hunkering down in response to higher energy prices and interest rates.

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In oil business record profits still disappoint

Chevron Corp. said Friday its second-quarter earnings soared to a new high, but that wasn't enough to satisfy investors whose expectations have been raised by the oil industry's recent run of eye-popping profit. The company's shares tumbled 3.5 percent.

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Republicans tie minimum wage to tax cut

Republican leaders are willing to allow the first minimum wage increase in a decade but only if it's coupled with a cut in future inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates, congressional aides said Friday.

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Digg.com Works - Warner Brothers To Cut Link With Adware Firm Zango

My recently featured article only received attention after being featured on digg. Almost 3 months after it was written, it finally gained traction - only after being featured on digg.com. So thanks to everyone at digg, you won one today.

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Friday, July 28, 2006

Minimum wage vote slated

House Republican leaders, giving in to political reality, plan a vote to raise the $5.15 minimum wage before leaving Washington this weekend for a five-week recess.

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California Heat Wave Over; At Least 139 Reported Dead

FRESNO, Calif. -- The state appeared to break out of its nearly two-week heat wave Friday, but not before it caused as many as 139 deaths and did untold damage to crops.

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Exxon Mobil profit's jumps 36 percent totaling $10.36 billion for 2Q.

Exxon Mobil said Thursday it earned $10.36 billion in the second quarter, the second largest quarterly profit ever recorded by a publicly traded U.S. company. The earnings figure was 36 percent above the profit it reported a year ago. High oil prices helped boost the company's revenue by 12 percent to a level just short of a quarterly record.

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Thursday, July 27, 2006

2GB of Free Online Backup? Yes!

Back up your files (up to 2GB) without any headaches or hassles for FREE!

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How to Win Against the RIAA in Court

This techdirt article suggests that the RIAA "will drop cases if you point out that an IP address isn't a person," and links to actual cases where the defendants won using this strategy. The logic behind this is that an IP address only points to who paid for the internet access, and not to who used it.

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The execution of a teenage girl, hung for being raped

The story of Atefah Sahaaleh, an Iranian 16-year old girl, hung for 'crimes against chastity'. Her crime? Being raped by a 51-year old man. How sickening that the 'moral police' enforcing Sharia law are the worst offenders.

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Kazaa becomes legal download service

Kazaa doesn't shine as brightly as it once did among the stars of p2p download services, but the venerable name in illegal downloads today announced, through a settlement with the International Federation of the Phonographic Industries (IFPI), that it will immediately become a legitimate download service.

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Web database of molesters becomes law

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush, joined by "America's Most Wanted" host John Walsh, signed a new law Thursday that requires convicted child molesters to be listed on a national Internet database and face a felony charge for failing to update their whereabouts.

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Ten Days of Hell, and what caused it

There were thousands who were without air conditioning, lights, refrigeration, internet connections, and, well, modern life generally.What do the consumers do about it? Keep paying the bills, to the same company that let them down. They can't switch. They can't influence the production process. They are powerless in more ways than one.

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Warner Bros website distributing Zango Spyware+Kiddy Porn browser

This is really screwed up. The official WarnerBros.com website promotes Zango/180 Solutions spyware to children using colorful cartoons and games, pre-checking the "I am over 18" box for them. 180 Solutions' adware/spyware has been observed to automatically browse to child porn websites when installed. Digg this up and lets get the word out!

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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Bootable copy of windows on a USB flash drive

Ever have a problem with the windows registry, or a pesky virus? have no fear, fix it with a bootable copy of windows no further away than your pocket or key chain

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The Digg This! Firefox Toolbar Extension

I couldn't find any decent Firefox extensions for digging articles that just simply allowed you to submit an article and was integrated into the toolbar. So I did what any self-respecting programmer would do and created my own. Plus I used it to digg this article.

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RIAA - Even One Song Can Get You Sued

RIAA spokesperson Jenni Engebretsen was interviewed by phone in connection with a suit filed against a college student over a 600 song collection. Her response: "There is no set threshold, no single number that would trigger a lawsuit. Uploading or downloading even one song is illegal."

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World War III?

'We're in the early stages of what I would describe as the Third World War, and, frankly...we don't have the right attitude.' -- Newt Gingrich, on NBC's Meet the Press, July 16, 2006

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Leo Laporte posts his thoughts on the "Digg vs Netscape" controversy

From Leo's blog: "The question is, do the top 10 contributors on a social networking site determine its success or failure? Of course not... Digg is what it is because of the entire community that participates there... Losing any 10 contributors would make no difference at all"

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RIAA kicked out of court over fileshare suit

The RIAA withdrew the case after the woman in question filed for summary judgment motion that dismissed the case and awarded attorney fees. Steve Gorden an entertainment lawyer said that this case shows the weakness of the RIAA's tactics. He went on to say its shows that if RIAA can't backup its claims, more defendants will fight back.

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Millionaire Takes Fight to MPAA

It's about time someone with some cash took a stand.

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New Disk-Lubricating Process Could Bring 1-Terabyte Laptops

Researchers at Seagate Technology acknowledge that such levels of storage on small, commercial products are still between five years and a decade into the future, but they feel confident they've hit upon a way to overcome a major limitation in disk manufacturing and capacity.

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States step up for Stem Cells after Presidential Veto

California (headed by Gov. Schwarzenegger, a Republican) has chipped in $150 million for grants for stem cell scientists, Illinois has promised $5 million for the same in their state. Individual state support of stem cell research has become a huge political issue in many of the upcoming elections due to the President's veto.

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Nobel 'Peace' prize winner wants to 'kill' President Bush

Betty Williams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 30 years ago. But the lady now wants to kill the President.

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AMD's ATI acquisition may help Linux

AMD's acquisition of ATI Technologies, one of the top two graphics processor makers, may be great news for desktop Linux users.

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American Bar Association: Bush is Destroying the Constitution

President Bush's penchant for writing exceptions to laws he has just signed violates the Constitution, an American Bar Association task force says in a report highly critical of the practice.

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How 25 years of MTV have Changed the World (for better and worse)

MTV famously claimed its first casualty with its premiere video, aired August 1, 1981. But since video killed the radio star, what has the network accomplished?

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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

The High Cost of Being Poor

There are people, concentrated in the Hamptons and Beverly Hills, who still confuse poverty with the simple life. No cable TV, no altercations with the maid, no summer home maintenance issues -- just the basics like family, sunsets and walks in the park. What they don't know is that it's expensive to be poor.

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Monday, July 24, 2006

AMD, ATi, Microsoft, and the Zune Set to Change the IT World

AMD buys ATi and Microsoft launches an ipod killer that they told everyone they didn’t have.

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Porn Star for Governor?

In the upcoming election Republican porn star Melody “Mimi Miyagi” Damayo will be appearing on the list of candidates for the governor of Nevada. So far, out of all the candidates, she has gotten the most mainstream press and expects to use her previous career to compliment her campaign. Are we seeing the beginning of a trend where educated politicians are being replaced with media stars?

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Online Dating 2.0: 13 Next-Gen Sites To Find Love

A great outline of 13 next-generation online dating sites with a handy feature comparison chart.

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U.S. Gas Prices Hit All-Time High

Nationwide gas prices hit an all-time high in the last two weeks, rising nearly 2 cents to just over $3 per gallon.

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Saturday, July 22, 2006

Foreign Companies Buy U.S. Roads, Bridges

Roads and bridges built by U.S. taxpayers are starting to be sold off, and so far foreign-owned companies are doing the buying.

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North Korea producing highly advanced counterfeit US currency

The counterfeits were nearly flawless. They featured the same high-tech color-shifting ink as genuine American bills and were printed on paper with the same precise composition of fibers. The engraved images were, if anything, finer than those produced by the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

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YouTube Is The Fastest Growing Website

The popularity of YouTube is growing at an astronomical rate, as web traffic to the video-sharing site grew 75% just in the week ending July 16.

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Friday, July 21, 2006

Wireless Broadband Could Go Live Nationwide in Less Than 3 Years

If Craig O. McCaw gets his way, you'll be able to do all that, and more, in as little as three years' time. McCaw's Clearwire Corp. has amassed enough licensed radio spectrum to create a nationwide, wireless broadband network based on an emerging technology called mobile WiMAX -- a powerful cousin of WiFi.

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Dual-booting Windows and Linux the easy way (Linux.com videos)

An excellent step-by-step videos-based guide. There is no longer a reason to have any machine in the house/office which is Windows-only.

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Is America's $8 Billion Bottled Water Industry A Fraud?

"In a trendy nightclub in New York City, the bartender tells guests they can only be served bottled water, which costs $5 for each tiny half-pint container. One outraged clubber is
stopped by the restroom attendant as she tries to refill the bottle from the
tap. "You can't do that," says the attendant. "New York's tap water isn't
safe."

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Americans Becoming Isolated From Reality

A major national survey being released today shows that the average number of people with whom Americans discuss important matters has dropped from three to two in just two decades.


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Toughest Immigration Law Passed in Hazelton, PA

A Pennsylvania town that passed one of the toughest immigration laws in the United States this week overstepped its authority, said a civil-liberties group which announced plans on Friday to sue. The city council of Hazleton, a former coal-mining town of some 31,000 people, late on Thursday passed a measure that will deny a business permit to anyone hiring illegal immigrants.


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Free Broadband for satellite users Starts TODAY

Again things in the UK are ahead of the USA. Article talks about free broadband being given to satellite television customers. Talk about a way for satellite television to kick the cable companies in the rear. Com on Dish guys, see what is going on in the Uk. Cable won't know how to compete!

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'Pirates' loots box office, grosses $258M

"Pirates of the Caribbean" is looking more like "Treasure Island." Already a record-shattering blockbuster, Johnny Depp's sequel "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" dug up $62.2 million in its second weekend, raising its 10-day total to $258.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

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Sunday, July 16, 2006

Bush Hijacks The Constitution

George Orwell once wrote: "Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." This New York Times OpEd boldly speaks the Truth behind the Bush administration seizure of the Constitutional values Americans hold dear.

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Friday, July 14, 2006

Self-control is the key to success

"He left a succession of 4-year-olds in a room with a bell and a marshmallow. If they rang the bell, he would come back and they could eat the marshmallow. If, however, they didn't ring the bell and waited for him to come back on his own, they could then have two marshmallows." Interesting study that correlates results to success in life.

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Americans read food labels, then eat what they want, poll finds

It's not surprising, even a bit obvious, but why read them in the first place if it isn't going to affect your decision?

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U.S. focus on biofuels is foolish

There's been a lot of talk lately about the promise of biofuels (such as ethanol and bio-diesel made from plants) to reduce our dependence on oil. However, to produce enough corn-based ethanol to meet current U.S. demand for gasoline, we would need to nearly double the land used for harvested crops, plant all of it in corn, and not eat any of it.

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Gas Prices Reach Second Highest Level Ever

The average price U.S. consumers paid for gasoline jumped 3.9 cents over the last week to $2.97 a gallon, the second highest level ever, the government said Monday.

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Read this while it's still legal - the state of free speech

I realize there are arguments for all these clampdowns. Still, it ought to give us pause that in one Fourth of July week we had two magazines banned in the state, one song muzzled in a school district and a slew of words outlawed in the military. Would a confident people do this to themselves?

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MySpace is Annoying Me . . . .

Normally I'll sing nothing but praise about MySpace . . . because lets face it I have no life and I'm addicted to MySpace . . I have over 200 friends now on there . . . its awesome . . . but as of yesterday and today . . . its undergoing some kinda maintenance . . . and its messing up everything I try and do . . I try and leave a comment for my Cousin Marla . . nope cant do that . . . i try and leave one for my Cousin JP . . . nope that dont work either . . I try and send a friend a msg via e-mail . . nope that dont work either . . . and the bulletins are down now . . . damn you MySpace . . . lol . . anyways Im done now . . got that out of my system . . . until next post . . lata . . .

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Sunday, July 09, 2006

Will the courts find the strength to challenge Bush?

In a time when Bush thinks it's ok to break as many laws as he sees fit in the name of freedom. Will the courts rise up against him and charge him with treason against the people? Only time will tell. With any luck maybe the courts will find the power to impeach him before his tyranny last any longer.

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$75 Linux PC - Just Add Monitor

I stumbled across this site on distrowatch.org. You can buy a $75 PC with your favorite Linux distribution installed; just add keyboard, mouse and monitor. Hey this PC is alright . . only drawbacks . . only 128 Megs of RAM . . and no CD-Rom . . . but hey for 75 bux . . whos complaining . . . you can add that stuff relatively cheaply . . .

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Saturday, July 08, 2006

Ten signs you're tech obsessed.

Most of us have a love-hate relationship with technology, but for some it goes beyond healthy admiration, writes Harriet Alexander. Hey after reading this you have to ask yourself "Do I fall into this Tech Obsessed Category?" Ask yourself that. I don't think Im quite as extreme as a few of these examples, but I may be a boarder line example of a Tech Addict.

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SFgate,Op-Ed: George W. Bush Is Dead To Me

"What a difference a handful of years makes. Now, overseas, we are a joke. A threat. A toxin. We are considered reckless and arrogant and ignorant, dangerous not just to the rest of the world but to the overall health of the planet. No one anywhere understands how a man like Bush can be the leader of the Free World."

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Friday, July 07, 2006

4th of July Fireworks . . .

Ok so I know its a day or 2 late . . but better late than never . . .
here is a video of the Fireworks from the 4th of July . . .
I went to Fairwell Bend this year at the park to see them . . . .



anyways . . comments are welcome . . .
lemme know what you think of the video . . .

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Thursday, July 06, 2006

High school valedictorian's speech condemns U.S. education system

Imagine the nerve ... a high-school valedictorian, on his way to Princeton next year, daring to speak about a topic he obviously has given much thought to the American education system. And the principal's reaction? He said Elnahal's speech was hypocritical and an insult.

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US National Privacy Day

Americans, why not spend this day to read and reflect on the founding documents on which our great Country was founded and think about what was sacrificed throughout our history to acquire and defend the rights and freedoms they've afforded us?

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The Single Most Important Document In The History Of The USA. A MUST READ.

The Declaration of Independence: When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God...

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Retire the Penny!

It costs 1.4 cents to mint a penny, and it costs each person $60 a year in wasted time. Here's a site dedicated to getting rid of the penny. Learn a bit about how much them pennies you have in your pocket are actually costing us.

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Steve Jobs is single largest shareholder of Disney

138,000,000 Shares Valued at = $ 3,900,000,000
Wow this was amazing news to me. It's true. I checked out the biography
on Jobs at Apple.com. Jobs started Pixar in 1986 and today Pixar is part of
Disney. Jobs sits on the Board of Directors for Disney.

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Sunday, July 02, 2006

An American Debate: How Many More?

"How many more times will find ourselves scrambling to justify the unjustifiable? How many more times will we let fear blur the line between right and wrong, humane and inhumane? How much liberty are we willing to sacrifice for safety? When we make such concessions, how should we weigh just how much real security will be gained in exchange?"

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The united states of total paranoia

I know Britain is full of incompetent water board officials and stabbed Glaswegians but even so I fell on my knees this morning and kissed the ground, because I've just spent three weeks trying to work in America.

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Wake Up People . . .

Read this article and find out how Bush thinks he's Above The Law.

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